Buildra

What it is

Buildra is an AI app builder. You describe an app in your own words, and an agent builds it in a sandbox you can watch, keeps talking to you until it is right, and publishes it to its own address. It covers web apps, phone apps, backends and scripts, "with the source yours to download." The company's blog says Buildra is particularly well suited to technical founders who want control over the output, and the founder and CEO, Amir Elgammal, writes there about AI agents that write and run code. The site's FAQ adds that the dashboard is available in English, Arabic, Spanish and French.

What you build and how

The home page heading is "The AI app builder that runs your app, not just the code," under the line "Describe it. Build it. Ship it." The point it keeps returning to is that you do not need to pick a framework, and you do not need to leave the conversation to see the app working. The workspace is a conversation on the left and the running app on the right. Buildra asks what it needs to know, then proposes a plan and changes nothing until you approve it. After that it builds while you watch. The company puts the approach in 3 lines: one sentence, with "no template to pick and no stack to choose"; one runtime; and one address.

On the first, the agent works out the stack from what you describe, and you can name one if you have a preference. On the second, every project gets a sandbox that runs the app, not just the code. It starts in seconds, sleeps when you leave and wakes when you come back, so the preview is the real thing. On the third, every published project gets its own buildra.page address, and you can sync the code to GitHub or download it at any point. The site says "Nothing is locked in."

The home page demonstrates this with sample builds you can pick or replace with your own prompt. One is a kanban board, with cards moving between To do, Doing and Done under a launch-week plan. Another is an invoicing app shown as published at invoices.buildra.page. The blog guides use prompts such as a job board where companies post roles and candidates apply with a CV, a marketplace, an invoice generator and a project management tool, and they describe Buildra as scaffolding the data model, screens and logic from a description rather than stitching 5 tools together. Other guides on the blog cover a blog, a portfolio site, a fitness tracker and a landing page, so the range of things people build runs from simple sites to larger apps such as a marketplace. Those guides are the company's own marketing, so read them as direction rather than a feature list.

The platform lists a few specific pieces. A Cloudflare D1 database is set up with the project when the app needs one. For phone apps, the page says it does iOS builds and uploads them to App Store Connect and Google Play, on a paid plan. That is the mobile-apps side of the product: you build the app in the same conversation and the paid plan carries it through to the stores. Backends and scripts are the other 2 output types the home page names, alongside web apps, so the product is not limited to front ends.

The FAQ is specific about what comes out. Web apps start from TanStack Start or Next.js, phone apps from Expo and games from Phaser, and the agent runs the code while you watch so you can see whether it works before you publish. The company advises reviewing it "as you would any code before it carries real users or payments." Publishing takes one click, a failed publish leaves the live site untouched, and you can roll back to an earlier version. Before any code is written, Buildra shows design directions to pick from, or you skip that step and let it decide. Phone apps open on your own phone while they are being built. On collaboration, the FAQ says plainly that Buildra "has no team roles or SSO yet," so today it is a tool for one builder or a small group rather than a governed multi-builder platform.

The evidence

The pricing section says "Start free. Pay when it ships," and "Every number here is one the platform enforces, not a marketing rounding."

• Free needs no card. It gives "5 credits a day, up to 25 a month," with 3 projects at once, a sandbox that sleeps after 2 minutes idle, publishing to buildra.page, the source to download and GitHub sync. The company describes it as enough to build something real and see whether this is for you.
• Starter is $25 a month or $250 a year. It gives 100 credits a month, projects without a cap, a sandbox that sleeps after 15 minutes idle, no Buildra badge on published sites, and iOS builds with uploads to the stores.
• Builder is $50 a month or $500 a year. It gives 200 credits a month, Max mode for more demanding work, a sandbox that sleeps after 30 minutes idle and early access to beta features, plus everything in Starter.
• Pro is from $100 a month or $1,000 a year. It includes 400 credits a month, in sizes up to 5,000, with a lower price per credit at the larger sizes. Its sandbox sleeps after 60 minutes idle, and premium support replies within the hour.
• Extra credits cost $0.25 each: $5 for 20, up to 1,000 in one purchase, and they come with a paid plan. Prices are in US dollars, and in some countries a lower regional price shows at checkout.

The blog also says the founder spent the last decade shipping developer tools and AI infrastructure for data and ML products. On lock-in, the FAQ says you keep your code on any plan, but published apps run on Buildra's hosting, so if Buildra stopped you would need to host the code yourself.

Who it suits and who it does not

Buildra suits a technical founder or developer who wants to describe an app, watch it run and then take the code with them. The GitHub sync and download option is the escape hatch into code, so a team that expects to hand the project to engineers later is covered. It also fits a solo builder who wants an MVP, a backend or a small script with a real preview and a published address in the same session. The credit model with a visible approve-the-plan step helps a builder keep control of what changes.

There are caveats. Credit pricing means a heavily edited app draws more than a stable one, and the free plan's daily allowance suits small experiments only. Store builds start on the $25 Starter plan. With no team roles or SSO yet, a larger organization that wants to roll it out across many builders will find the administration side still to come.